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About the Student and Teacher Technology Transformation Teams (ST4) Project

The ST4 Project helps teachers and students use technology to support STEM activities in the classroom. This project is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and is a collaboration between Maricopa Community Colleges and the Arizona Department of Education

The Student and Teacher Technology Transformation Teams (ST4) project will provide teachers and students the opportunity to work in teams and use web-accessible tools to produce design-based learning activities that consist of technical solutions to current, real-world problems. In addition, teachers and students will have access to a closed beta game-based learning management system, which may be used for delivery of content to students.

Teachers will walk away from the project with learning labs/activities that utilize the engineering design process and technology to focus on solutions to current and local real-world problems in their disciplines.

ST4 Project Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Improve learning effectiveness and collaborative skills of teachers and students in STEM programs via ICT training and design-based learning.

• Objective 1: Provide training to teachers and students that increase their skills for using ICT tools to communicate, collaborate, and design solutions to real-world problems across four STEM disciplines.

• Objective 2: Increase teachers' ability to implement active, collaborative learning in STEM courses.

• Objective 3: Provide ongoing, follow-up support to teachers at their schools to ensure implementation of ICT tools, curriculum, and team-based learning.

• Objective 4: Enable STEM students to improve presentation and communication skills by demonstrating their Design-based Learning Labs (DBLL) to peers, professionals, and their community.

Goal 2: Expand, disseminate, and sustain the ST4 Training Model, curriculum, and positive impacts in Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs in Arizona and nationwide.

• Objective 1: Conduct research to identify pre-existing student ICT skills and behaviors that impact their learning and their teacher's learning when they participate in teacher professional development.

• Objective 2: Connect CTE students to Maricopa degree and transfer programs in each target discipline.

• Objective 3: Align ST4 curriculum and training methods and outcomes with ICT standards, Common Core State Standard for Science and Technical Subjects, and standards for each CTE target program.

• Objective 4: Broadly disseminate the training model, curriculum, and learning products (DBLLs).

For more information about this project visit here, or contact us at st4stem@gmail.com.
The Student and Teacher Technology Transformation Teams (ST4) Project is a National Science Foundation funded grant.